Nature Podcast: 18 Aug 2011
This week on the Nature Podcast, the ethics of memory manipulation, the spread of immunity in the body and explaining the coffee-ring effect. Plus, the best of the rest from this week’s Nature. Read more
This week on the Nature Podcast, the ethics of memory manipulation, the spread of immunity in the body and explaining the coffee-ring effect. Plus, the best of the rest from this week’s Nature. Read more
This week on the show: hydrothermal vents, backwards chemistry and sham brain surgery. Plus, the best of the rest from this week’s Nature. Read more
On this week’s show, we learn how the latest anti-doping tests hope to catch cheating cyclists, find out how scientists have made tiny brains from DNA and hear how chimps and children have a different take on sharing. Plus, the best of the rest from Nature. Read more
This week on the Nature Podcast: building the biggest dinosaurs, gentle heart defibrillation, and the sometimes surprising applications of centuries-old maths. Plus, the potato genome, a mysterious disease sweeping southern Africa and a mission to the asteroid Vesta. Read more
This week on the Nature Podcast, a giant storm on Saturn, the link between alcohol and DNA damage, and the vitamin D debate. Plus, the best of the rest from this week’s Nature. Read more
Posted on behalf of Brendan Maher At the second annual personal genomes meeting at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York this week, bioentrepreneur Hugh Rienhoff updated conference-goers on his very personal quest to find a molecular diagnosis for his daughter Beatrice (pictured). Recently, he’s enlisted the help of second-generation sequencing giant Illumina to sequence all the genes expressed into messenger RNA from his daughter’s white blood cells, as well as that from his wife and himself in hopes that sequencing the three might flush out a genetic defect responsible for the five-year-old’s mysterious constellation of symptoms, which include low … Read more
The World Conference of Science Journalists 2009 is over. Next time such a large group of science hacks meet together will be in 2011 in Cairo. Read more
The Gran Sasso Laboratory near L’Aquila was undamaged by the earthquake and experiments will resume Tuesday 14 April.
Posted by Katrina Charles, BA Media Fellow So as the press centre winds down, and the festival comes to a close, I thought I would quickly wrap up the festival through the adventures of the other BA Media Fellows before we all go back to our day jobs. Read more
Posted by Katrina Charles, BA Media Fellow This morning I went to see a speaker talk about the tragic death of a young girl, killed by a chronic urinary tract infection. This infection resulted in the growth of bladder stone, leading after some years to renal failure and finally death. Why is this special? Because this girl died between 1,000 and 1,300 years ago and the rare find of a urinary stone provides a wealth of data for forensic scientists. Read more